Pusta Azizbayova

Pusta Azizbayova (Pustakhanim Azizbayova) was born in Baku.

She studied at the Faculty of History of Azerbaijan State University (1951).

While still a student, she began working as a tour guide at the Central Lenin Museum (1948), and then became the director of its branch and head of the department. She worked as the director of the Mashadi Azizbeyov house museum, the head of the Soviet history department of the Azerbaijan History Museum (1955-1961), and the director of the museum (1961-1998). She researched the problems of socialist construction in Azerbaijan. She became the first Azerbaijani woman to receive a doctorate in historical sciences (1961). She was elected a corresponding member (1972) and a full member (1980) of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. She was one of the first academic women of the Muslim East. She was also engaged in pedagogical activity, taught at various higher schools in Baku, became an associate professor (1955), and a professor (1962). She is the author of many monographs and various publications, including about 300 articles. For a long time she headed the Baku branch of the All-Union "Knowledge" Society.

Doctor of Historical Sciences (1961), Professor (1962), Academician, Honored Scientist (1982) Pusta Azizbayova died in 1998 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.